Automate interest rate, prepayment and pipeline risk management for fixed-rate loan portfolios.
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Risk management
Automate hedging with tailored swaps that match your portfolio’s risk profile.
Hedge alignment
Use balance-guaranteed swaps to align hedges with actual loan notional.
Transparent pricing
View fixed spreads and full pricing breakdowns directly in the app.
Improved efficiencies
Upload, reconcile, and approve trades in minutes with minimal manual input.
Automates interest rate risk hedging with minimal manual input.
Supports granular, asset-level hedging tailored to your portfolio.
Provides APIs to integrate with your loan pricing models for seamless operation.
Provides transparent pricing with daily indicative rates.
Provide loan data through manual or automated file uploads.
For clients who:
- Have interest rate, prepayment, or pipeline risk that you want to manage efficiently.
- Prefer to lock in your lending margin and focus on core business.
- Need a scalable, automated solution that integrates with your existing data processes.
Considerations:
- Designed for passive interest rate hedging, not speculative trading.
- Clients must review and approve hedge profiles before execution.
- Subject to trading documentation and regulatory requirements.
- Subject to service agreement and ISDA-based hedging terms.
- Breakage costs may apply to early termination of hedging.
How it works
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Upload portfolio data
Provide your loan level asset data via manual or automated file upload.
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Validate and reconcile
MicroRates validates your data and generates a reconciliation report for review and approval.
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Submit Hedge profile
Review the proposed updated swap profile and submit it to the NatWest trading desk for execution.
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Approve and execute
NatWest review and confirm the trade, executing it based on your pre-agreed parameters.
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Track performance
Use detailed MI reporting tools to monitor hedge effectiveness, pricing, and asset-level performance.